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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 10h

Who needs reality tv when you can have strangers yelling into their phones with the most interesting gossip about their friends’ relationships. Public transit is the gift that keeps on giving

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 6d

"An English degree is a rip off" said by the people who are currently ripping everyone off. They don't want you to be literate, to understand the context, the references or the rhetoric they are using to scam you.

A rip off for THEM. If you can read, write and parse meaning, you're harder to fool.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 8d

"welcome to the new faculty research orientation. oh you're in English?" walks away.
*crying with laughter*

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 10d

I am so torn between wondering why this exists and thinking that I need it www.etsy.com/listing/1862...

www.etsy.com

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 11d

my only life lesson for everyone ever: make friends with a librarian. half way across the country and @liblarrian.bsky.social is still saving me when my brain is dead.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 12d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 13d

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 13d

📣📚New publication: S. van Haaren, The Digital Medieval Manuscript - Material Approaches to Digital Codicology, Brill (2025)

▶️ tinyurl.com/45vj7z23

#medievalsky #digitalhumanities

The Digital Medieval Manuscript

"The Digital Medieval Manuscript" published on 04 Sep 2025 by Brill.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 15d

"I showed my TAs this photo of you so that they know what you look like" helpful

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 15d

new article out with these lovelies @eagatti.bsky.social @kalanicraig.bsky.social

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 15d

I just spent five minutes trying to figure out what a new interface indicator meant on my Mac only to finally figure out it was a bit of fluff on the screen. I did a major in computing science.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 16d

Peak conference energy. Analyzing manuscript images

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 16d

Had a lovely time at ACIS south at @appalachianstate.bsky.social but I am absolutely in love with the stunning Boone, NC

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 17d

Excited to see great papers, but mostly here for medieval cats

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Larry (he/him) @liblarrian.bsky.social · 20d

So excited, a book I have a chapter in is out! alastore.ala.org/teaching-inf...

I wrote with the incomparable Jess LaBozetta on a Tech Comm class that we co taught for a while. Unfortunately I've moved on from TCID and she's moved on from UCCS, but I still refer to that lesson plan for other things

Teaching Information Literacy by Discipline: Using and Creating Adaptations of the Framework

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 20d

googling where to find old maps in north carolina to make myself feel better about the state of the world. so if you have suggestions, please do let me know .

Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 20d

starting the day off by emailing grad students that their dream school just stopped accepting phd students in the humanities.
cool, cool, cool

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 22d

yes I should be writing but look

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 22d

when I was doing my MA a friend used to take away my internet cord when I had to get some writing done (York somehow still required ethernet in 2010) and OH MY GOD I WISH THAT WAS STILL POSSIBLE

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 26d

I just think so much of my life would feel better if I could just have a few days with some medieval manuscripts. In an archive. That maybe didn’t have wifi or phone service.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 28d

it is embarrasing how happy this makes me www.wcnc.com/article/news...

Groundbreaking for Wegmans in Charlotte is set for next week

The Charlotte location will be the fifth in the state.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 28d

I truly have not missed being at a football school.

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · Sep 13

am sorry. did the rest of you know that snakes in trees are a new thing that I now have to deal with? new fear about the south.

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · Sep 11

🚨Job Klaxon🚨

Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods

📍Institute of History, University of Bern (🇨🇭)
📆Deadline: 19 October 2025
▶️ Information: tinyurl.com/56ywncuj

#Medievalsky #DigitalHumaniities

Uni Bern: Open rank Professorship in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods

The Institute of History of the University of Bern is seeking to fill a full time professor position (open rank) in History of the Middle Ages with consideration of digital Methods, beginning 1 Februa...

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Vicky McAlister @vickymcalister.bsky.social · Sep 9

Just over a month to go to get your articles in for consideration in Eolas vol. 19 (2026)! We're accepting short reports and digital humanities project reviews until end of year. I'm happy to answer any questions #medievalsky

Eolas accepting articles until Friday 17 October 2025. Submit to vmcalister@towson.edu

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · Sep 5

“Data science will soon disappear and it will be called knowledge science” I AM PRETTY SURE THATS THE HUMANITIES or library science

learning at a rapid pace that a joint appoinment between English and Data Science is going to be a weird time